Department of History

Alice Nash

Picture of Alice NashAssistant Professor

Office: Herter 621
Telephone: (413) 545-6761
Fax: (413) 545-6137
E-mail: anash@history.umass.edu

Degree: Ph.D., Columbia (1997).
Field(s) of interest: Native American history, Early American History.

Graduate Courses Offered:
ALANA Communities and Civil Rights
Researching Early New England and New France (Not Online)
Theory and Method in Native American History (Not Online)
History 170 -- Indigenous Peoples of North America
www.courses.umass.edu/hist170

History 393I --Indigenous Women
www.courses.umass.edu/hist393i

Research Interests and Professional Activities
Professor Nash holds the Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the Université de Montréal (Canada) for 2003-04. Her research interests center on the impact of colonization on the indigenous peoples of northeastern North America with a particular interest in family and gender relations. Recent publications include "Antic Deportments and Indian Postures: Embodiment in Anglo-Indian New England," in Lindman and Tarter, eds., "A Centre of Wonders": The Body in Early America (Cornell UP 2001); “‘None of the women were abused’: Indigenous Contexts for the Treatment of Women Captives in the Northeast,” in Merril Smith, ed., Sex Without Consent: Rape and Sexual Coercion in America (NYU Press, 2001); an online review of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, “Still Pequot After All These Years,” in Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life 1:1 (September 2000); and three articles in French translation published in Recherches amérindiennes au Québec: “Odanak durant les années 1920 : un prisme reflétant l’histoire des abénaquis (Odanak in the 1920s: A Prism of Abenaki History),: trans. Claude Gélinas (32/2 :2002); “La linguistique liturgique du père Aubéry : Aperçu ethnohistorique (Father Aubery’s Liturgical Linguistics: An Ethnohistorical View),” co-authored with Nicholas N. Smith, trans. Nicole Beaudry (33/2: 2003); and “Théophile Panadis (1889-1966), un guide abénaquis (Théophile Panadis (1889-1966): An Abenaki Guide),” co-authored with Réjean Obomsawin, trans. Claude Gélinas (33/2: 2003). Her first book, The Abiding Frontier: Family, Gender and Religion in Wabanaki History, 1600-1763, will be published by the University of Massachusetts Press.

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